Australian W3C Office

Welcome to the November 2004 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on regional events, XML Schema, SVG, Semantic Web and XHTML.

1. Regional Events
2. XML Schema Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
3. Pronunciation Lexicon Requirements Updated
4. Working Drafts: XQuery, XPath and XSLT
5. Last Call: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2
6. Working Draft: Specifying the Language of XHTML and HTML Content
7. About this newsletter

 

1. Regional Events

# Australian W3C Day - Brisbane, Tuesday 7th December

The theme for this year's Australian W3C Day is the Semantic Web, "... an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation." (Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila, The Semantic Web, Scientific American, May 2001).

The W3C Day program is designed for IT professionals wanting to learn more about the next step in the evolution of the Web. The event will provide attendees with a complete understanding of the Semantic Web from its technical makeup to its use in real world applications. Speakers include Dr Brian McBride, evangelist and prime mover behind the Semantic Web activity at Hewlett Packard; Mr Don Bradley and Mr Andrew Hodge from the Australian Bureau of Statistics; Dr Dennis Quan from IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre; Dr Mark Burnett from Command and Control Division of the Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO); Professor Dr Guus Schreiber, Professor of Intelligent Information Systems at the Free University Amsterdam and Dr Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices. Dr Herman will close the day with an hour long Question and Answer session to address any questions not covered in, or triggered by, the preceding talks.

The informal nature of the Australian W3C Day provides attendees with the rare opportunity of hearing from and talking to the experts who are driving the evolution of the Web.

This project is funded under the Commonwealth Government's Innovation Access Program. An initiative of Backing Australia's Ability, the Commonwealth Government's commitment to Innovation

URI:

W3C Day: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/w3cday.html
Registration: https://www.dstc.edu.au/evolve/registration.php
AusIndustry: http://www.ausindustry.gov.au/
Semantic Web Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

# XML Workshop

DSTC and the Australian W3C Office is pleased to present an intensive one day workshop on W3C's XML activities by the international experts creating XML Recommendations. The workshop immediately precedes a series of W3C Members-only XML Working Group meetings being held in Brisbane in early January. This will be the first time such a large group of XML experts will be in Australia providing local IT professionals with a rare opportunity to hear the latest from these XML leaders.

The XML Workshop will be held at the Queensland Government's Information Industries Bureau in Brisbane on Friday 14 January 2005. Presenters will cover topics such as XML Schema, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0 and XPath.

A small registration fee will apply to cover catering costs. Further information on this event will be available on the Australian W3C Office site and through the Australian W3C Office monthly newsletter in coming weeks.

URI:

XML Workshop: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html
Australian W3C Office: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/

# Archiving Web Resources International Conference, 9-11 November 2004

Web resources form an important part of a nation's national documentary and cultural heritage. Institutions with responsibility for collecting and providing long-term access to information face many issues in extending their responsibility to Web resources. The conference will advance understanding of the issues through presentations on ways in which the Web is being used. It will also review progress with addressing the issues at the institution level and through major international research endeavours.

URI:

Program and registration: http://www.nla.gov.au/webarchiving/

# Web and Online Accessibility Workshop

The National Information and Library Service (NILS) is running a "Web and Online Accessibility Workshop" in Canberra on 9 November 2004. These workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements. (NILS is a subsidiary of RBS.RVIB.VAF Ltd, formerly Royal Blind Society of NSW, Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind and Vision Australia Foundation).

URI:

Workshop: http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0911-canb.html

2. XML Schema Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

W3C recently released XML Schema Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation in three parts: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Structures and Part 2: Datatypes. The second edition is not a new version; it corrects errors found in the XML Schema first edition. A modular approach well-suited to distributed applications, XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies and the structure of XML documents using those vocabularies.

URIs:

Part 0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-0-20041028/
Part 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-1-20041028/
Part 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/
XML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/

3. Pronunciation Lexicon Requirements Updated

The Voice Browser Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0 Requirements. A collection of words or phrases together with their pronunciations, a pronunciation lexicon can augment the vocabulary in speech synthesis and speech recognition systems.

URIs:

Version 1.0 Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-lexicon-reqs-20041029/
Speech Interface Framework: http://www.w3.org/TR/voice-intro/
Voice Browser Homepage: http://www.w3.org/TR/voice-intro/

4. Working Drafts: XQuery, XPath and XSLT

The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released five updated Working Drafts addressing comments received during Last Call. Comments are invited on all of these drafts.

XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xquery-20041029/
XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xpath20-20041029/
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xpath-datamodel-20041029/
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xpath-functions-20041029/
XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20041029/
XML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/

5. Last Call: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2

The SVG Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. The SVG language delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The document also describes a set of APIs for building graphics-based applications. Comments are welcome through 24 November.

URIs:

SVG 1.2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/
SVG Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

6. Working Draft: Specifying the Language of XHTML and HTML Content

The GEO (Guidelines, Education and Outreach) Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Specifying the Language of Content. Part of a series designed for authors, the document is an aid to specifying the language of content for an international audience. Comments are welcome.

URI:

Specifying the language of content: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20041015/

7. About this newsletter

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